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   PID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2019-01-08   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2019-01-08   
   August 13, 2022 - Southeastern Brazil   
      
      Rio de Janiero, Brazil   
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      Forested highlands, long coastlines, and the metropolitan are of Rio de   
      Janeiro dominate the landscape of southeastern Brazil. The Moderate   
      Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) acquired a true-color   
      image of the states of Rio de Janeiro, Espiritu Santo, and the part of   
      eastern Minas Gerais.   
      
      A large swatch of brown-gray pixels marks the city of Rio de Janeiro,   
      the second-largest city in Brazil and home to about 13,634,000 people.   
      The city’s full name is Cidade de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro,   
      which translates as “City of Saint Sebastian of River of January”—but   
      it normally goes by the popular nickname of, simply, Rio. The location   
      on the west shore of Guanabara bay led the Portuguese explorers who   
      explored the area in January, 1502, to think they had found the mouth   
      of an amazing river, and this led to the name “River of January”.   
      
      The land north of Rio is dominated by highlands and rolling hills   
      leading to the Espinhaço Mountains. At one time, several hundred years   
      ago, the hills along the Atlantic coastal region were covered in   
      tropical forest. Today, the ancient Atlantic Forest is only a   
      fragmented patchwork of undisturbed forest, cut by highways, farms,   
      pastures, and cities. Efforts are underway to replant some of the   
      forested area. Remnant Atlantic Forest, along with newly regenerated   
      forest appears dark green.   
      
      Much of southeastern Brazil’s coastlines are line by white sand   
      beaches, which are alluring to tourists as well as vacationing locals.   
      Two world-famous beaches include Copacabana, which sits on the first   
      scallop of coastline on the western shore of Guanabara Bay and Ipanema,   
      which sits on the Atlantic Ocean just west of Guanabara Bay in south   
      zone of the city of Rio.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Terra   
      Date Acquired: 8/5/2022   
      Resolutions:  1km (222.4 KB),  500m (599.9 KB),  250m (393.6   
      KB)   
      Bands Used: 1,4,3   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-08-13   
       
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